Brief Encounter

Three Kings, written and directed by David O. Russell begins with a quasi- documentary moment. We see, off in the distance, a soldier with a weapon in his hand waving it aloft — we cannot tell whether it is as a gesture of surrender or threat — as Sgt Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) in full…

A movie that prompts the reflection that the therapeutic romance isn’t really romantic at all

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Hollywood’s take on the financial crisis of 2008. Guess who gets the blame.

Nothing to Lose, written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, stars Tim Robbins as Nick, an advertising executive in Los Angeles who is carjacked by “T” (Martin Lawrence) while in a state of shock over his apparent discovery of his wife, Ann (Kelly Preston), in bed with his boss, Phil (Michael McKean). Sittiing at an intersection…

The opening of Mean Girls this week seems an appropriate occasion to take a look at some really mean girls